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These charts are compiled weekly from actual airplay reported by over 50 independent contributing Bluegrass DJ’s. Only songs less than 18 months from date of original release appear here.
A weekly look at the most played songs of the week on radio.
A monthly aggregate of the most played bluegrass songs of the month on radio.
Weekly radio favorites focusing on the intersection between progressive bluegrass & Americana.
Weekly rundown of the most played bluegrass gospel tracks on radio.
Dixie Bee-Liners were a guest on Tuesday’s edition of Folk Alley on NPR. Both audio and video from the show can…
Serious students of the mandolin have long revered the name of Lloyd Loar, the Gibson luthier from the 1920s whose design…
Marty Raybon is next up on the Bluegrass Junction Track-By-Track show on Sirius-XM, starting this morning (7/1) at 11:00 a.m. (EDT)….
Recording King, a division of The Music Link, has introduced two new banjo models aimed at new players looking at their…
Hayes Mandolins, built by hand by luthier Rick Hayes, has used the launch of their first guitar model as the occasion…
Steve Martin will appear on the season finale of A Prairie Home Companion on Saturday, June 27. As has often been…
The Bristol Heralnd Courier has a piece in this morning’s paper from Claire Galofaro with a few updates concerning the auto…
The Grascals will be among the guests on tonight’s (6/24) edition of Tennessee Shines, broadcast live from Knoxville on WDVX. The…
Matt Glaser has been a fixture in the string music scene in the northeastern US since he was in his 20s….
This week’s edition of Track-By-Track with Kyle Cantrell will feature Alecia Nugent and her superb new CD, Hillbilly Goddess. She will…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music